has told the EEC to ith the job of getting na nal movements right re i interferes with the esti transport arrangeIs o member...

LORD Shepherd is to be the new chairman of the National Bus Company in succession to Sir Frederick Wood who is leaving at the...

F proposals for new and more stringent measures to .01 the construction of new hazardous load vehicles have si t to Transport...

A £58m investment planned for the strike-torn Bathgate plant has been cancelled and all work that was to have been done at the...

GROWTH is on the cards for the haulage industry for the rest of the year — but it won't last long and there is unlikely to be...

THE 1979 Commercial M Fleet Management C ference will be held in Lon on October 24 at the R4 Lancaster Hotel. It was...

THE CHANNEL Tunnel ject, thought to have buried a good two years ag being revived by British Ri A study of the plan fi...

SUGGESTIONS that traffic could be diverted to the projected M20 and M26 from the proposed M25 have been rejected "unrealistic"...

of Chrysler have been cloaked in secrecy this week, but it now seems that Industry Secretary Eric Varley is making a stand on...

Kaine, president of the 'national Harvester k Group in Birmingham reek. ernational Harvester's al business represents a Om...

) FERENCE is to be held on Thursday, October 19, in o for those who are involved in the overland transport of us goods....

SOUTH Yorkshire PTE has announced its 1979 bus replacement programme, which involves an order for 120 double-deck buses worth...

DRIVER fatigue rather than mechanical failure was almost certainly to blame for recent hgv accidents — and such accidents could...

JT ERN BRS Clearfreight iri g house service, ch d last September, inase the original subtra ted freight business by )er ent in...

A STRONG case for Government assistance to operators of public tolled bridges and tunnels was presented to Transport Minister,...

ALTHOUGH the maintenance of vehicles operated by Thorpe Demolition and Excavations Ltd of Rotherham appeared on the surface, to...

THE TRUNK road system in Wales will be transformed within the next 10 years with extra projects brought forward by the...

OPERATORS who ben from the results achievet the Road Haulage Associa but who neither belong contribute to the Associa have been...

HAWICK and Jedburgh Cooperative Society of Hawick admitted two offences when it appeared on a charge under Section 69(I) at...

A NEW express parcels service for the Midlands has been launched by Roadline, designed to deliver within 24 hours and including...

of imported lorries, d pickups soared by an 60 per cent during t eight months of lie British-produced achieved an 8.8 per wth....

rt and Road Research Laboratory is to provide wellxi information and advice on a wide range of transport es in a way which...

A WELSH coroner has told his court that it is essential that vehicles over three tons be banned from Usk and the surrounding...

THE TRANSPORT Department has issued a new list of approved tachograph calibration centres. Additions to the list, which is...

Livingstoi surrounding areas of West Lothian is likely to be approved by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners. A better all-r...

SP TE heavy opposition, nn "r and Graham of ton, has won limited ho ty from the Yorkshire iffi Commissioners to !ra British...

DEVON Conversions has just announced a new 12-seater version of the Mercedes-Benz Bremen range of vans. The Devon conversion...

PETER KILDUFF is the Bus Driver of the Year for the. second year running — but this year he managed to win without the cracked...

YORK Truck Equipment. • Ltd is to build and market a new range of grp bodies through its national network of 12 service and...

ANTHONY Carrimore is to manufacture a new electrohydraulic tailboard loader designed specially to cater for wheeled palletized...

CUMMINS are currently 1 king on a new in-line cylinder diesel known as XT-10, said William Schl vice-president, research...

J r bo problems )ASTER UK Ltd of Huddersfield has produced a leaflet ini g some of the main causes of turbocharger oil leaks...

A QUICK release four-pin fixing has been designed for the hydraulic lorry-mounted cranes made by Lyka Cranes Ltd, Blackpool...

ZF has introduced a smaller version of the Transmatic which is aimed at the frontwheel-drive delivery van and midi-bus...

A NEW model range of driver and co-driver seats, marketed under the name of "Novaride" is the direct result of collaboration...

A COMPLETELY new financial structure is needed for the National Bus Company, recommends the House of Commons Select Committee...

,T OUGH the diesel enle as come a long way in conomy, the future for .th r substantial improveint is bright. This was the co...

RAYMOND Baxter, introducing the speakers, forecast that at some time after the turn of the century there will be either a...

AFTER the papers by LEN HARPER of the RHA and ALAN KEVAN of the FTA on the Certificate of Professional Competence, P. PRESTON,...

THE TRANSPORT business, according to PETER LAND, was rather like the position everyone has been in when contemplating the next...

RECOMMENDATIONS from the Foster Committee on Operator's Licensing are likely to be published in the next fortnight — but...

THE CONFERENCE closed with an open forum. N. BYRNE, fleet engineer, United Molasses Co Ltd, led off by asking Mr SCHWAB whether...

NINETY-ONE delegates completed Certificate of Professional Competence simulated examination papers at the conference, and the...

THE Certificate of Competence mock examination Presented to delegates comprised 30 questions which covered the complete range...

ye Gray takes the Scottish and Newcastle r weries' ZF Transmatic special out on test WHEN DAF told us they had built a one-off...

C regs preoccupied delegates at CPT's Harrogate conference, i. argued that operating conditions were different in Britain....

atm It was with considerable interest that I read the Bird's-Eye View reference to Mr Peter Privett and his success as Lorry...

In a recent CM you carried a thought-provoking advertisement for Land-Rovers headed 'Is there an alternative?'" I cannot help,...

We read with interest Alan Millar's article - Better to plan than travel hopefully" (CM, August 25). How heartily we concur...

A contract to supply more than 200 74ft-long passenger cars for Hong Kong's billion-dollar underground railway development is...

About three in every hundred passengers on Greater Manchester Transport buses swindle the authority. They may be making £2...

"If you want labour trouble, buy a Merc" could be a valid slogan. An operator who recently bought a Mercedes-Benz 1626 model...

Harry Heywood, writing in Practical Motorist, pays tribute to a "lorry driver who lost his coolant but didn't lose his cool."...

A telephone kiosk was shipped from Ashford, Kent, to its West German twin town, Bad Mun streifel, in Townsend Thoresen's...

A senior master at Birmingham secondary school is to spend a year with National Carriers to learn what industry is like. Half...

Phil Siret, a mechanic at National Carriers in Oxford, has won a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship. He is visiting...

ERF B-series 32-ton-g tractors with Gardner 8LX engines are appar denting the British mark high-quality foreign veh The...

A magistrate in Sydney, raiia, has held that for passenger deliberately te smoke into the face of one an assault. The plaintiff...

"My dream is that wet British-based, British-o motor industry," Hugh Ion, the retiring presidi the Amalgamated Uni Engineering...

FINAL DRIVES, 4 • by Preceptor IN the 'last article in this series, I dealt with the double reduction rear axle where the...

3.2 of Part A of the Royal Society of Arts syllabus for :ertificate of Professional Competence deals with par, waiting, loading...

THE TRADES Union Congress always gets a lot of limelight in September, when its annual meetings are held at Blackpool, Brighton...

Geoffrey Shadbolt AMIoTA, is sales and development manager at the Heathrowbased express haulage firm, APS (Transport) Ltd. He...